RISK SUMMARY: LITHUANIA

Summarizes the economic and political risks in Lithuania as of May 2006. Plan of the government to purchase 53.7% stake at the Russian oil firm Yukos in domestic refiner Mazeikiu Nafta; Decrease of unemployment from 11.4% in 2004 to 8.3% in 2005; Ranking of Lithuania's business environment in the European markets and the world.

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